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Where
are we?Meadview is located in northwest Arizona at the point where the Grand
Canyon ends and Lake Mead begins. At 3400 feet elevation Meadview enjoys
summers a little cooler than the low lying deserts and winters a little
warmer than the mountain areas.

Directions
from Las
Vegas, Nevada:Go South on Highway 93 across the bridge
at Hoover Dam, continue to milepost 42 and turn left on to Pierce Ferry
Road past Dolan Springs to just past
milepost 34. Turn right on Sandview Road and immediately left to the RV Park.

Directions
from
Kingman, Arizona:
Go North on Stockton Hill Road and turn right on
Pierce Ferry Road continue to milepost 34. It
is about 60 miles from
downtown Kingman.

Pierce
Ferry Road is county highway 25, and is paved the entire length. Watch
out for cows, deer, wild horses, (and
for the Sheriff) !

Propane:We have a Propane Filling Station to top off our amenities. Our price compares to
other facilities.

Sunset in MeadviewA Storm Brewing

A little background information on the
Lake Mead Recreation Area and the Grapevine Mesa:

Lake Mead National Recreation Area:

Gregg
Basin on Lake Mead

Boating on Lake Mead is at its
best at this end of the lake. Crystal clear water, fantastic scenery,
miles of open water and clean beaches. Peace and solitude are yours for
the asking - and the fishing is great!

Lake Mead National Recreation
Area has over 3000 square miles of environmentally protected riparian
scenery. According to the 1998 "Information Please" Almanac, Lake Mead
is the largest National Recreational Area in the United States with an acreage of
almost one and a half million acres.

Beginning at the east border are
the Grand Wash cliffs which rise to 6000 feet. The cliffs are the
gateway for the Colorado River as it leaves the Grand Canyon and becomes
Lake Mead. The lake is 115 miles long, terminating at Hoover Dam (the
tallest dam in the Western Hemisphere.) The dam rises 726.4 feet from
bedrock to the paved road across this mile long concrete marvel.

Lake Mead is America's largest
man made lake covering 229 square miles with a storage capacity of 30
million-acre feet of water. The 500 miles of shoreline changes
dramatically from one area to the next with steep cliffs, deep coves,
sandy beaches and always a vast panorama of photographic opportunities.
The eastern end of the lake is fabled for its fishing. Fish to be caught
include bluegill, large and smallmouth bass, striped bass, that can reach monster sizes
of up to 60 pounds, catfish
(also known to acquire monsterous proportions), and once in awhile,
a trout.

In the coves or on the cliffs
that line the lake, you can see the majestic desert bighorn sheep. The
rams aresturdy animals
carrying massive curved horns and boasting large harems of ewes with
their young. The wild burros, descendants of those left behind by
discouraged prospectors, drink at the water's edge, as do bobcats, cougars,
and coyotes. Few nights pass without a serenade from a family of
coyotes. Badgers, cottontails, the wily black-eared jackrabbit, and
even deer can be found within the park boundaries. Antelope are quite
rare, but are seen occasionally.

Gila Monsters are sometimes
spotted and shot by camera,
as you can see below.

Gambel's quail thrive in our
area, sometimes numbering in the hundreds as they search for seeds under
the brush. In season, bird watchers can find over 250 species of birds
ranging from 5 kinds of humming birds to the osprey, golden eagle, and
even the bald eagle. There are 60 species of waterfowl including ducks,
herons, brown pelicans, geese, coots, terns, and the small swan-like
billed grebe, and the "lesser" grebe. Songbirds, owls, hawks, ravens and the turkey vultures are
constant visitors to the area.

At Grapevine Springs, you will find beds of the scarlet monkey flower.
The yellow wild columbine trails over the cliffs at Columbine Falls.
Throughout the rest of the area you will find desert plants that survive
our dry climate with only six inches of annual rainfall. This
generally occurs in July, August, and again in February. On rare
occasions during the winter
months we have had some snowfalls of between 2 and 5 inches.

The
Grapevine Mesa

On
the Grapevine Mesa the chaparral includes creosote bush, rabbit bush,
cat claw, joshua, yucca and large cholla,
plus many flowering cactus.

The
extensive Joshua Forest that you drive through from highway 93 to
Meadview is the largest of its kind in the United States and boasts
some magnificent specimens of this unusual tree. For more information
on the peculiarities of the Joshua Trees... Click on:

Desert Foliage

(All Photos by Annie)

In
the dry washes of the mesa you can spend many hours digging for gold -
and you can find it! A 12-ounce nugget was found by a weekend gold
seeker a few years ago and dozens of others have found smaller nuggets
and flakes.

The
hiking and 4x4 trails are numerous and selection of difficulty is wide.

You
can visit the awesome beauty of the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai Indian
Reservation and marvel at the Colorado River, far below, still carving
the canyon ever deeper even as you watch.

A very short history of the area:

The Grapevine Wash has long been well traveled and is known as the Ute
trail from the Colorado River south to Hopi and across into California.
In more recent history the Mormons used this trail to trek their trade
wagons to the Hopi and Navajo villages.

In the 1820's
Jedidiah Smith crossed the Virgin River, (Virgis River as it was known then)
and then across the Colorado to reach the California territory. In 1869 John
Wesley Powell (1834-1902), geologist, explorer, and one-armed civil war
veteran, led his band of explorers through the Grand Canyon past Pearce
Ferry and South Cove and they ended their river trip where the Virgin enters
the Colorado.

Boulder Dam was started in 1931 and finished in 1935. Over 90 men died
during its construction. In 1953 the dam was renamed for Herbert Hoover who
was president when it was originally conceived. Henry J. Kaiser, a ship
builder, was the contractor on the dam. The
lake was named for Elwood Mead, commissioner for Reclamation in the early
1930s

For a little local history of Meadview and the Meadview area Click
Here: